Well I'm flipping the plants slated for reversal today. Now, from everything I've read, I should give them about a 2 week head-start before I flip the plants I aim to be the recipients of pollen. That could be both a good and a bad thing, since these sativas have quite a lot of stretch to go through, but thankfully I've got the trellis up to keep the canopy even. I'm not going to scrog because I have this little Jack Herer auto planted for the Comparison Grow thread.
Maybe another 2 weeks of veg will help them correct whatever issues I've got going on. I don't know, but I got really delay flowering much longer. I just wish I had another little spot to take some clones... I'll probably take some further into flower and reveg them, I like the structure of the monster-cropping.
I'm wondering if I should put some air-stones in my water reservoirs. I think having the labs in there plus the molasses is only going to contain them for so long, and I can't really get any information on whether the LABS will maintain bacterial dominance or if things can go south. For now I'm just giving it the ol' smell test, but because LABs smells a bit like cheese or sour milk anyway, it might be harder to tell that it's gone bad with the nose-test. I think trying to keep the LABs in the reservoir might be a little more trouble than it's worth, but I know people keep nutrients bubbling in their reservoirs--I just don't know if that's with synthetics or with organic teas like this. To add to all this, I don't know if I
do add airstones if it would foam up and bubble over my res.
As I'm working on reversing these plants, I think I should start thinking more about which crosses I want to make. This is what I have...
Panama x Malawi #1 ( will have reversed male only ):
Pros:
Higher Yield (23g off one plant in 3g pot)
Good Aroma, Sweet and Mellow with Vanilla and Citrus
Nice chunky buds, lots of trichomes
Smoothy, tasty smoke
Very potent high, a little bit of a creeper
Cons:
Lanky plant structure
Sunted easily
Shows stress from nutrient/lockout more readily
Panama x Malawi #2
Pros
Good Aroma, more citrusy and spicy, maybe a hint of pine
Nice chunky buds, lots of trichomes
Good growth structure, more tolerant to heavy feed
Potent high, spacy, gives me the munchies
Cons
Lower yield ( 17 g off 1 plant in 3 gal pot )
A little Harsher Taste
Panama x Malawi #3 (My Favorite)
Pros:
Higher yield
Higher potency
Nice branching
Pungent aroma, very citrusy and almost nutty like pistaschio
Cons:
A little touchy with nutrients
Popcorn nugs
Panama x Malawi #5
Pros:
Big colas
Heavy feeder, doesn't show much signs of stress
Excellent structure
Cons:
Airy, larfy looking buds off of the big colas
Not as potent
Kind of muted aroma
Platinum GSC x Cherry OG
Pros:
Amazing taste and aroma, very much Girl Scout Cookies but with hints of grape like GDP
9 week finish
Cons:
Super low yield
Not really as potent as you'd expect looking at it
They're begging to be flowered, big pre-flowers even on 24 hr continuous...